Conversation between paper and a pencil

Paper "Hi, I'm a paper, nice to meet you pencil"

Pencil *Thinks* "I should write something on this poor paper!"

Paper "Is there anything wrong pencil?"

Pencil "No, nothing!"

Pencil "Have you been written before on paper?"

Paper "No, but my friends are, I don't want to be useless, I will be useful"

Pencil "Don't all paper was born to be written on, then why shouldn't I WIRTE ON YOU, MUAHAHHA"

Pencil : *Writes on paper*

Paper : "N!, I'M NOW GOING TO BE USED TO BE IN RECYCLE BIN, OR JUST PAPER FOR THERE HOTDOGS, OR TO BE EATEN BY KIDS!"

THE END!

the primary theme of ha jin's “a decade” would be the need to revisit one's past to determine a path for the future. “a decade” is one of the twelve brief stories of ha jin's under the red flag, which takes place during the cultural revolution of china.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”